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Today, Explained

Total Recount

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Almost a week after the midterm elections, several key races remain undecided and recounts are coming. The president calls shenanigans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:54.0

Our Gulsion Europe Politics reporter here at Vox, the midterms are just under a day

0:58.6

from being a weak old and we're still counting votes in some very important races.

1:04.2

Let's start with Florida.

1:05.3

What's going on with the governor's race there?

1:09.6

The Florida governor's race is between Andrew Gillum, who's this young progressive mayor

1:13.8

of Tallahassees trying to be the first African-American governor of Florida, and he's up against

1:18.8

Rhonda Santas, this conservative, also young, congressman who is a huge fan of Trump and

1:25.9

also came under a lot of scrutiny for having reportedly ties to White Nationalists.

1:31.1

And at first it was looking like Santas was going to win this thing to the point where

1:35.9

Andrew Gillum even went on stage and gave this kind of tearful concession speech.

1:41.7

But I can guarantee you this, I'm not going anywhere.

1:50.7

We're going to fight.

1:52.5

And then over the week when the first Tallahassees came in by Saturday, the first deadline in

1:58.5

Florida, Gillum actually closed in on Santas to 0.41 percent.

2:04.4

And under Florida law, that means that it will trigger a machine recount.

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